Through the British, discreet contacts were made with, of all countries, Iran.

You got any discreet contacts you could tap into fast?

Other officials began making discreet contact with Resistance groups in France and abroad.

Washington initiated discreet contact with the North in late 1988 but has let Tokyo take the lead in coaxing Pyongyang out of its self-imposed isolation.

She spoke to each of them in turn, leaning close, talking, listening, finishing with discreet fist-to-fist contact like ballplayers after a vital hit.

Most impressively, he carried on this conversation while making discreet contact with several single women in the car: a wink here and a nod there.

Ultraconservatives from right-wing intellectuals to criminal syndicates have always maintained discreet contacts with the conservative governing party, the Liberal Democrats.

Personally, I prefer discreet one-on-one contact and tend to avoid anything that draws attention.

Philby's first task for Otto was to make a list of his Cambridge contemporaries who might respond to discreet contact.

A few years ago, politicians in Japan's governing party maintained warm, if discreet, contacts with North Korea's representatives here.